Rick Moody Quotes

I don’t remember.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

I don't even know my own phone number.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

I have a terrible memory.

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

I have a really terrible memory.

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Short term memory is not good.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.